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March 2008
March 25, 2008
WordPress 2.5 Preview »
Sporting a new admin interface design by Happy Cog, WordPress 2.5 looks sharp and easy to use. I haven’t experimented with WordPress since the early days, but once 2.5 is fully releases I think it might be time for another look.
Fine-tune Your Volume Adjustments in OSX »
I wasn’t aware of this handy shortcut:
Every time you press the Volume key, a full block of volume is raised or lowered in the Volume bezel on your screen. If the amount it is raised or lowered is too much or not enough, you can adjust the amount by a quarter of a block at a time.
To fine-tune the Volume adjustment, hold the Shift and Option keys while hitting F4 or F5.
Muxtape »
Make mix tapes that play anywhere. A very cool, simple service that’s bound to be shut down eventually. (via: 37Signals)
March 19, 2008
Food Court Musical »
Improv Everywhere just keeps getting better.
March 13, 2008
The Wildlife of an Idea »
A gripping visualization of getting great ideas pushed through the often painful gauntlet of approvals.
(via: UX Mag)
March 12, 2008
Photoshop Disasters »
A fun catalog of all the things that can go wrong when retouching an image. I’m kind of partial to the severed hand myself.
(via: Kottke)
flickrvision »
Created by David Troy, who created twittervision, flickrvision displays images on a world map as they are uploaded to Flickr. Practically hypnotic.
iPhone Contact Search Coming? »
When watching the video of the March 6 press event for the iPhone SDK roadmap, Daniel Ahdout noticed a tiny icon at the top of the contacts list that looks similar to the OS X Spotlight icon.
March 11, 2008
Behance Magazine »
From Behance, the creators of ActionMethod and accompanying products (I have an Action Book, but haven’t put it into use yet), comes Behance Magazine — Insights & Tips from Creatives on Making Ideas Happen.
Six Suggestions that Can Make You a Better Designer »
Eric Karjaluoto:
Start: Until there’s something on the page, you’re nowhere. An enormous challenge for most creatives is the fear of the blank sheet of paper. Get over this as quickly as you can. Stop pondering and just get started.
As someone who always has ideas, but rarely gets around to implementing them, this was a good reminder. And it’s actually one of the reasons things have been a little slow around here lately. I’ve finally started working on an idea I’ve had on the burner for awhile now. More to come on that later…
March 6, 2008
iPhone SDK Road Map Event Live Coverage »
I’ll be live blogging the live blogs of Apple’s press conference. Well, not really, but MacRumors has the breakdown of the sites that will be live blogging the event.
March 4, 2008
Gary Gygax, Creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Dies at 69 »
It’s been a long time since I rolled a twenty-sided die, but sad news nonetheless.
Ohio Voters - Find Your Polling Location »
If you’re in Ohio (or Texas), get out and vote today.
March 3, 2008
The Leila Texts »
Leila Sales receives random text messages from strangers due to a glitch in Verizon’s system and blogs them for us all to see:
You’re a prostitute.
from a 978 phone number, Sunday, March 2, 12:55 AMI was out with my friend Clare when I received this text message. Clare was like, “Oh my God, let me respond, please.” So she texted back (on her own phone), “No, YOU are a prostitute.”
978 then texted Clare back with something like, “No, you are.”
Clare said, “Uh… this is a little weird.”
I was like, “Yeah, welcome to the Leila Texts.”
March 2, 2008
Blues Guitarist Jeff Healy Dies at 41 »
Despite losing his vision to Retinoblastoma at the age of one, Jeff Healy became a legendary blues guitarist. Watching him play was simply amazing. Here’s a video of Jeff Healy playing Look at Little Sister with Stevie Ray Vaughn.
March 1, 2008
Newsfire Now Free »
Newsfire, the excellent RSS reader from David Watanabe, is now completely free.
Last 5 Articles
- Looking for Delicious.com Users 09/02/08
- Let's Get Fresh Columbus 02/12/08
- Feed Updates 01/19/08
- Macworld Deflated 01/15/08
- Macworld Predictions & Live Coverage Roundup 01/14/08